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Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!

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Emily Giffin
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Author
Lawyer
Novelist
Baltimore
Maryland
Emily Fisk Giffin
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Teen
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Wanted
Writing
Trying
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Looking back, I question whether I really loved Nate, or just the security of our relationship. I wonder if my feelings for him didn’t have a lot to do with hating my job. From the bar exam through that first hellish year as an associate, Nate was my escape. And sometimes that can feel an awful lot like love.
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I love him wholly and unconditionally and without reservation. I love him enough to sacrifice a friendship. I love him enough to accept my own happiness and use it, in turn, to make him happy back.
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Then he asks if he can kiss me. It is a question I don’t usually like. Just do it, I always think.
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How different this moment feels, for so many reasons. I tell myself that no two loves are identical - but that I don't have to compare anymore.
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Well, shoes, bags and clutches are usually my big weaknesses - my husband always laughs when I call them 'investment pieces.'
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I like to match what I wear to my book jacket - it's a little bit cheesy, but it's my thing.
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Did she ever regret her choices? Were her decisions more clear-cut than mine - or are there always shades of gray whe it comes to matters of the heart?
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One way isn't better than the other they're just different.
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When I meet someone I like being with more than I like being alone, I'll marry her.
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What's the point of being sad? he says. We're here now.
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The world is not that black and white, Rachel. There are no moral absolutes. It is complex.
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Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again.
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My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love.
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You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions.
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I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.
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Surely he knows we are all watching. That I am watching. It is always that way when you are in a group and someone decides to go for a swim or walk to the water. The ocean is a giant stage. It is natural that the others watch, if only for a moment.
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I remember that my mother once told me that the opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference.
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Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy.
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I wondered why I was so startled by the encounter when there was something that seemed utterly inevitable about the moment. Not in any grand, destined sense just in the quiet, stubborn way that unfinished business has of imposing its will on the unwilling.
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I've always loved sister stories in fiction, from the time I was little, reading about Beezus and Ramona. I've always wanted to write a sister story.
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